"national vice presidential nominee Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who was the Senate floor leader for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Martin claimed had ""paved the way for the destruction of our liberties."" Martin's opposition to the civil rights measure paralleled the views of Alabama's twenty pro-Goldwater national convention delegates, who declared the measure an affront to ""personal freedom of choice in association and employment."" Several of the Alabama Republican representatives made national headlines in 1965 when they denounced the voting-rights march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. Though King's contributions to desegregation were"
"2014 British Academy Television Awards in the ""specialist factual"" category, losing to eventual winner ""David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive"". The March (2013 film) The March (titled Martin Luther King and the March on Washington in the United Kingdom) is a BAFTA-nominated documentary directed by John Akomfrah and narrated by Denzel Washington. It is about the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - largely remembered for Martin Luther King's famous and iconic ""I Have a Dream"" speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It formed the centrepiece of a special week of"
"The March (2013 film) The March (titled Martin Luther King and the March on Washington in the United Kingdom) is a BAFTA-nominated documentary directed by John Akomfrah and narrated by Denzel Washington. It is about the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - largely remembered for Martin Luther King's famous and iconic ""I Have a Dream"" speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It formed the centrepiece of a special week of programs and online events and activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March. The film features interviews with some of"
"January 9, 2015, two months before the 50th anniversary of the march. The film was re-released on March 20, 2015 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the historical march. ""Selma"" had four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Actor and won for Best Original Song. It was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards. In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) accepts his Nobel Peace Prize. Four black girls walking down stairs in the Birmingham, Alabama"
"and named Runner Up. In the Hour of Chaos In the Hour of Chaos is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Bayer Mack about the life and trials of the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. (""Daddy King""), father of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The film's ensemble voice cast uses first-person narration sourced from autobiographies and biographies about Daddy King, family attorney Murray M. Silver and other King relatives and associates. Set against a backdrop of sociopolitical intrigue and anarchy spanning three generations of the King family, ""In the Hour of Chaos"" also goes behind-the-scenes of America's"
"to the march, the Sierra Club sponsored a screening of the film ""Before the Flood"" (2016) on April 21, and The Block off Biltmore screened the documentary film ""Cowspiracy"" (2014) on April 23. Another march with a corresponding rally was held in Charlotte. In Oregon, demonstrations were planned in Bend's Drake Park, Medford, and Portland. Portland's event was organized by OPAL Environmental Justice and the Oregon Just Transition Alliance, and was held at Dawson Park. In Washington, demonstrations were planned in Port Angeles and Walla Walla. Speakers in Port Angeles included Chad Bowechop, who manages the Makah Tribal Council Office"
"grossing documentary film of all time. In 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests demanding accountability for the financial crisis of 2007 and against inequality started in Manhattan, New York and soon spread to other cities around the country, becoming known more broadly as the Occupy Movement. Kshama Sawant was elected to the Seattle City Council as an openly socialist candidate in 2013. She was re-elected in 2015. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Defeated 10 term incumbent Joe Crowley in the NY-14 U.S house primary and went on to win her general election. She is the youngest"
"the face, he refused to back away from the civil rights challenges of his times. King in the Wilderness King in the Wilderness is an American documentary film about Martin Luther King Jr that premiered on April 2, 2018 on HBO, focusing on the final 18 months of his life leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968 with some never-before-seen footage of interviews with those closest to him interspersed with historical archives during a period of his life when, in addition to upsetting both President Lyndon Johnson and the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as well as numerous"
"by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best documentary feature. Citizen Koch Citizen Koch is a 2013 documentary film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, concerning the political influence of American plutocrats on the political process following the US Supreme Court decision in ""Citizens United v. FEC"" which granted corporations the ability to anonymously spend unlimited money to influence public policy and elections. The film focuses on the eponymous Koch brothers, in particular, and their support for Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who represents the Citizen Koch in the title. The film also chronicles the rise of"
"Equality (film) Equality is a short film by American filmmaker, Al Sutton, MD, a documentary under the genre of human rights, social issues, history and news. The film contains rare footage of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in New York City to show support for the feminist movement and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote. It was organized by NOW, the National Organization for Women. While it depicts"
"and the disenfranchisement of blacks throughout the South to the era of prohibition and war time. Over this background, there are two more stories — that of Daddy King and the story of Daddy’s influence on Martin Jr. Part one of ""In the Hour of Chaos"" aired on public television in early 2016 and the full film was released online July 1, 2016. Martin Luther King Sr. Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899November 11, 1984) was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He was the father of civil"
"restroom; Johnson has an uncomfortable conversation with Hoover on how this fact slipped by security screening. Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize; Hoover, still distrusting King, sends him an insulting, anonymous letter demanding King commit suicide, which is ignored. Johnson wins the election conclusively, but the Democratic Party loses the states of the Deep South. Hints of the Vietnam War, the Great Society programs against poverty, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the continuing loss of the South to the Republicans are given at the end. On July 16, 2014, it was announced that HBO Films had"
"Nachtmusik"" and Michael Jackson as examples. In 2013 he received his first television broadcast credit for ""The March"", a BBC/PBS documentary narrated by Denzel Washington which received a BAFTA nomination at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards. Directed by John Akomfrah and executive-produced by Robert Redford ""The March"" is about the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – largely remembered for Martin Luther King's famous and iconic ""I Have a Dream"" speech. In March 2015 Tandis was named laureate and winner in the media composer category at the first International MediaMusic competition in Moscow, for which film"
"Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement, and the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s ""Give Us the Ballot"" speech. The demonstration was planned at the occasion of the third anniversary of the ""Brown v. Board of Education"", a landmark Supreme Court decision against segregation in public schools. The event organizers urged the government to abide by that decision, as the process of desegregation was being obstructed at local and state levels. The march was organized by A."
"King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his creation and leadership of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights and social and economic justice in the Civil Rights Movement. It uses only original newsreel and other primary material, unvarnished and unretouched, and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 through his assassination in 1968. The original newsreel segments are framed by celebrity narrators Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Burt"
"Abolition Act in 1833, the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, the release of Motown's first number-one song, ""Please Mr. Postman"" by The Marvellettes, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 ""I Have a Dream"" speech, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the night then-senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. DuVernay directed ""Selma"", a $20 million budget film produced by Plan B Entertainment, about Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. The movie was released on December 25, 2014 to critical acclaim."
"Hurt Locker"". He achieved global recognition with his portrayal of Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making his first appearance in """" (2014) and later in """" (2015), ""Ant-Man"" (2015), """" (2016), """" (2018) and the upcoming """" (2019). In May 2016, he co-starred in the HBO TV film ""All the Way"" as Martin Luther King Jr., opposite Bryan Cranston, who was reprising his Tony Award-winning performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson from the play of the same name""."" Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Martha (née Gordon) and Willie Mackie Sr., a carpenter who owned"
"America, including Marilyn Monroe's world-famous ""Happy Birthday, Mr. President"" at Madison Square Garden and Martin Luther King's ""I Have A Dream"" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The film is designed primarily to remind, focusing on the characters and events that build up to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King as their apparent determination to shy away from war, discrimination and hatred became ever more publicized. The film is classified as being ""In Production"" on Amazon's Internet Movie Database."
"without difficulty by nightfall. The crowning moment of the march was King's famous ""I Have a Dream"" speech in which he articulated the hopes and aspirations of the Civil Rights Movement and rooted it in two cherished gospels—the Old Testament and the unfulfilled promise of the American creed. When civil rights activists protesting segregation in St. Augustine, Florida were met with arrests and Ku Klux Klan violence, the local SCLC affiliate appealed to King for assistance in the spring of 1964. SCLC sent staff to help organize and lead demonstrations and mobilized support for St. Augustine in the North. Hundreds"
"sarcastic one-liner: ""The Reverend Martin Luther King?"" After King's assassination on April 4, 1968, this line was removed from the film, so by August 1968, almost all theaters' showings of this film had this line omitted. As early as 1969, the line was restored to many but not all prints, and the line was preserved in the VHS and DVD versions of the film, as well. The plot explores similar themes to the 1958 play ""Hot Summer Night"" by Ted Willis. The film won two Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards: Stanley Kramer produced and directed an unsold"
"of the struggle for racial equality and social justice. This work is an important contribution to the history of the black freedom struggle, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone who cares about human rights in America. In 2014, the Selma City Council renamed five blocks of Lapsley Street as Boyntons Street to honor Amelia Boynton Robinson and Sam Boynton. Robinson is played by Lorraine Toussaint in the 2014 film ""Selma"", about the Selma Voting Rights Movement and its Selma to Montgomery marches. Robinson, then 103 years old, was unable to travel to see the film. Paramount Pictures set up"
"conventional activities to prioritizing preserving his father's legacy. Reflecting, King admitted that the time was not right since he was ""probably moving faster than the board was ready to."" Dexter has been a dedicated vegan and animal rights activist since the late 1980s. He attended the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 2013, the event at which his father delivered his I Have a Dream speech. Dexter Scott King portrayed his father and Civil rights movement activist Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2002 American television movie The Rosa Parks Story. In 1997, 29 years after"
"opens up with sharing the voice recording of the night that Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman. The documentary shows how the #blacklivesmatter hashtag came into effect on social media and how the movement rose up. In the documentary, other incidents where injustice was shown is displayed throughout the film. The “Stay Woke” documentary shows the cry for justice as a result to the several instances of police brutality. “Stay Woke” digs deep into the movement of Black Lives Matter And everything that it believes. The Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 after the uproar over the killing"
"score. Equality (film) Equality is a short film by American filmmaker, Al Sutton, MD, a documentary under the genre of human rights, social issues, history and news. The film contains rare footage of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in New York City to show support for the feminist movement and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote. It was organized by NOW, the National Organization for Women. While it"
"In the Hour of Chaos In the Hour of Chaos is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Bayer Mack about the life and trials of the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. (""Daddy King""), father of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The film's ensemble voice cast uses first-person narration sourced from autobiographies and biographies about Daddy King, family attorney Murray M. Silver and other King relatives and associates. Set against a backdrop of sociopolitical intrigue and anarchy spanning three generations of the King family, ""In the Hour of Chaos"" also goes behind-the-scenes of America's major domestic conflicts and"
"Slacker Uprising Slacker Uprising is a documentary about Michael Moore's tour of colleges in swing states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 18- to 29-year-olds to vote, and the response it received. The film is a re-edited version of ""Captain Mike Across America"", which played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. It is one of the first feature-length films made by a known director to be released as a free and legal download online. The free download is only available to those residing in the United States and Canada. The film was also made available"
"The Runner (2015 film) The Runner is a 2015 American political drama film written and directed by Austin Stark at his directorial debut. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda and Sarah Paulson. The film was released on August 7, 2015, in a limited release and through video on demand by Alchemy. In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an idealistic politician (Nicolas Cage) is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal. Madeleine Stowe was originally cast to play the female lead"
"the documentary film ""Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood"". He self-financed the project and released it independently through his production studio, Block Starz Music Television. In an April 2014 interview with ""The Washington Times"", Mack said he was inspired to produce a film about Oscar Micheaux's life because it mirrored his own. The film was nominated for ""Best Independent Documentary"" at the 2015 Black Reel Awards. Mack is also executive producer of the critically acclaimed web series, ""Profiles of African-American Success"". In 2016, he wrote and directed the Martin Luther King Sr. documentary ""In the Hour of Chaos"", which"
"direct conversations...I think it is very important to promote diversity in ownership."" King was among the co-founders of Bounce TV, a black-oriented digital broadcasting network. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Let America Vote, an organization founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander that aims to end voter suppression. On August 28, 2017, King marched with Al Sharpton in Washington D.C. for the Ministers March for Justice leading over 3,000 ministers to protest the policies of President Donald J. Trump. King was under major controversy when he agreed to meet with Trump in January 2017."
"– of the same characters. I took a really hard look at how I could best tell this story on screen now that I had all the things that cinema brings that I did not have in my toolkit when I was working on stage."" On March 7, 2015, it was announced that Jay Roach would direct the film. On June 30, 2015, Anthony Mackie was cast as Martin Luther King Jr. On July 2, 2015, Melissa Leo was cast as Lady Bird Johnson. On July 8, 2015, Stephen Root and Marque Richardson were cast as J. Edgar Hoover and"
"F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, convicted assassins Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan and the film world's brightest icons of that time Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. The plot line revolves around the concepts of truth and freedom, but pursues further towards deception, intrigue, conspiracy and murder, and features some of the most memorable moments in 1960's America, including Marilyn Monroe's world-famous ""Happy Birthday, Mr. President"" at Madison Square Garden and Martin Luther King's ""I Have A Dream"" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he called for racial"
"Belafonte's remarkable success as a singer and actor, but also his true passion for social change. The film outlines some highlights of his entertainment career, but is more focused on how he helped change the world in other ways: marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil-rights era; working against apartheid in South Africa; fighting hunger through his instrumental work with USA for Africa; and, most recently, working to combat gang violence through programs with inner-city youth.* In an interview about the film, Belafonte discussed his activism from Civil Rights to poverty in Africa. The film won"
"The film features several prominent activists, politicians, and public figures such as, Angela Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Cory Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and others. It was released on October 7, 2016 on Netflix. ""13th"" has garnered acclaim from film critics and is currently at a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 69 reviews, with the critical consensus that states: """"13th"" strikes at the heart of America's tangled racial history, offering observations as incendiary as they are calmly controlled."" In 2017, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th"